TEL-4 Fire
The TEL-4 Fire burned 2,500 acres in Florida, in 1998. It was discovered on June 21, 1998. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,500 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 1998
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,866 acres. Point of origin as reported, 28.475, -80.667.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,866 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 1998, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Florida
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- E Ransom
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2848808066019980621
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1998FLMIR4824
- Note on the perimeter
- Single scene due to low quality pre scenes
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Florida in 199812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 39,000 | Jun 20, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 26,900 | Jun 20, 1998 | Natural |
| Holiday Fire | 24,602 | May 25, 1998 | Human |
| Oak Fire | 20,100 | Jun 2, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,753 | Jun 15, 1998 | Human |
| 27 Fire | 10,700 | Aug 1, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,560 | Jun 19, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,240 | Jun 24, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,621 | Feb 19, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,145 | Jul 1, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,052 | Mar 23, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,000 | Jun 30, 1998 | Natural |
Nearby
Sources
Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.